Fully Web-Enabled: Query, analyze and manipulate data over the Web. Use Extensible Markup Language (XML) in SQL Server 2000 to exchange data between loosely coupled systems. Access data easily and securely from a browser, through firewalls, and perform fast full-text searches of formatted documents. Analyze and link online analytical processing (OLAP) cubes, even over the Web. Perform clickstream analysis to learn about your Web customers.

Highly Scalable and Reliable: Grow without limits with enhanced scalability and reliability features. Partition your database workload to achieve scale-out of applications. Take full advantage of Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) hardware, and, with the Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter. Server operating system, support up to 32 CPUs and 64 GB of RAM.

Fastest Time-to-Market: Rapidly build, deploy, and manage e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions. Perform sophisticated data mining on customer and financial data. Reduce development time with the integrated T-SQL debugger, and develop your own functions that can be reused in different applications. SQL Server 2000 provides the fastest route to Web application development.

Record Benchmark: SQL Server 2000 posted world-record benchmarks that eclipsed the competition on multiple platforms. For details on the benchmarks, visit http://www.microsoft.com/sql/worldrecord

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